[BruceA4]

Gang,

I as well as you know the outrageous prices of .308 ammo these days. My question concerns the cheaper steel cased ammo run through an A4.
I have thousands & thousands of rounds run through my DLO A4 already without any problems. Knock wood! I'm really afraid to start running steel cased ammo through it now!
I'm asking for experience from everyone that has run the russian stuff through their A4s. I'm talking full auto and I mean thousands of rounds! Any info will be appreciated!!!!

Bruce

 

[DINK]

I ran 500 rounds of Wolf through my A4 just to see what would happen. I had to tighten up the headspace two clicks to get reliable operation, but then it ran just fine.

I have also run many thousands of the old Norinco copper-washed steel cased ammo with no problems except it broke several firing pins. Since they are cheap and easy to replace, I don't regard that as a significant downside. I would break one per shoot as a rule, then have no further problems.

 

[jmann]

I dont know of any problems with the steel case wolf ammo. Heck, I have spent a premium in recent years for steel cased ammo to run in my machineguns. Romy 8mm and hungarian 54r are much better than yugo 8 and bulgarian 54r in my opinion. I would never shy away from reliable ammo because it had a steel case. Over the years I have had about 6 kabooms in various beltfed guns and it has always involved BRASS CASED ammo of one form or another. Strange thing is I have probably run more steel than brass. I have run upwards of 30000 rounds of romanian 8mm through my ramo 1928 colt over the past 3 years and that has all been steel case.

 

[Shattered]

I have also run many thousands of the old Norinco copper-washed steel cased ammo with no problems except it broke several firing pins. Since they are cheap and easy to replace, I don't regard that as a significant downside. I would break one per shoot as a rule, then have no further problems.

Really... ?

As a guy who's shot a few rounds of Norinco myself, I totally agree. However, I've only broken one firing pin since I've acquired the gun, plenty of other parts, but only one firing pin.

And that was so cool. It was a partially chambered round when it went off and a lot of dust flew, but no blood. Turned out the pin broke just before chambering the round, in effect making the gun a fixed firing pin dealie. And you kinda have an idea about how I shoot. After determining eggzactly what had happened, I tilted the gun skyward in the mount to ram a rod down the barrel to check for barrel obstruction. Sure enough, a bullet popped out of the chamber and fell to the ground. Along with the bullet was a bunch of what looked like solder dripped over here and there. It was the lead core, melted out of the bullet and didn't solidify until it left the barrel.... heh.

Hey... we keep'em warm.

 

[N2124V]

I've run a little bit of everything, even mixing steel and brass, and no problems.

 

[Starvingboy]

I have run steel cased, and can't get bare steel cases to feed. Silver bear just won't run. Brown bear is fine. Tried it in two 1919's. I assume wolf will run fine, though I have not tried.

If anyone wants 40ish linked up rounds of silver bear, I no longer have a use for them.

 

[Shattered]

40 rounds?

40 cases maybe... now we'd be talking.

 

[Starvingboy]

yea, I know it's not much, but it's sitting in the bottom of my ammo can doing nothing. The only other .308 around here is my brothers national match m-14, and he's picky about the ammo he puts through it. Just figured if anyone was nearby/next door and wanted it, they were welcome. Or course, for 40 rounds unless you're living in springfield, it's not worth the drive.